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Curated, booked and produced by Justin Miller, Jacques Renault, Lovefingers and Alison Childs, GALAXIE welcomes bands, DJs, sound and video artists, filmmakers, designers and artists of all kinds to perform together in one space while providing fun dance-party entertainment to the local community. Previous guests have included Salvatore Principato of Liquid Liquid, Canyons (DFA), Sebastian Thomson of Trans Am, Ian Svenonius, TBD (Lee Douglas & Justin Vandervolgen) and DJ Spun (Rong Music). Galaxie has recently started a monthly free party at Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar which features guest DJs, visuals by resident Alison Childs and Galaxie TV, a video compilation featuring guest video artists. Galaxie TV screens abstract video art, remixed rare vintage pornos, space sex films, shorts and more. The work is exclusively available for your eyes only at Galaxie.

Justin Miller is the rare yet enviable combination of the two ends of the disc jokey spectrum: he is all at once a "DJ's DJ" and a party-friendly, floor-commanding maestro of the downtown New York City scene. Justin has always had the aim of one day creating―and, subsequently, fostering―a reputation as an international taste-maker DJ and has recently gained that acclaim. Employed by the iconic DFA Records by day, Miller has, in many ways, become a public face for the label. Justin couldn't be happier to have been given the opportunity to work so closely on a day-to-day basis with the company's founding members James Murphy, Jonathan Galkin, and Tim Goldsworthy. In 2007, Miller commenced 205 Tuesdays, a weekly party he ran with good friend and producer/DJ Jacques Renault. The event aimed to bring something new to New York's inconsistent nightlife and proved to be very successful. Miller saw the event as an ideal way to develop a strong, branded identity of his own while simultaneously expanding the horizon of his professional pursuits at the DFA office. After over a year of hosting countless local and internationally renowned guests, off-the-wall ragers, and delirious mornings after, 205 Tuesdays closed its doors. However, Miller didn't see this as the end of an era―for him, it was just the beginning. Justin continued to foster his growing reputation, using the 205 event as a formidable credibility card. His desire is to emulate the great DJ's of the 70s and 80s―those who focused most on curating perfect party environments and "breaking" records―stuck with him.

Always a huge fan and admirer of the art world, Miller happily found himself embraced by MoMA and has now spun at several of their openings and galas, including a special DFA Dance Party for the Color Chart Exhibition, the 2009 and 2010 Armory shows with Gang Gang Dance and the Walkmen respectively, and the benefit for Tim Burton's retrospective. He's also been stationed behind the turntables for many openings at the galleries scattered throughout New York's SoHo and Chinatown neighborhoods, like Deitch Projects and Terence Koh's ASS gallery. For these events, Miller sees himself as a source of the evening's soundtrack, but he also revels in being the artist audiences come to see. Testament to this is his long list of globe-spanning gigs, from Fabric, Cargo, and Plastic People in London to Social Club, Scorpitone, and Le Baron in Paris to the humble War Room in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

At the end of the day, Miller is cementing DFA's presence in the dance music scene as well as continuing to explore the world of classic 12"s, dusty milk crates full of vinyl, and whatever his music-making friends throw his way. Whether he's leading a small yet loyal crowd into the wee hours of a Tuesday morning or conducting the synchronized fist-pumping of thousands overseas, Miller is enthused to be in the thick of it and deeply gratified to be revered as one of today's most sought-after names in an industry he's dedicated his heart and soul to.

Andrew Hogge, known as Lovefingers, needs little introduction amongst the global disco elite. His internationally acclaimed mix of 999 songs at lovefingers.org has had a undeniable impact on the burgeoning eclectic dance scene of today. A Los Angeles native, Andrew hosted Blackdisco Social Club since 2001 (including guests Thomas Bullock, Special Disco Version and Prins Thomas) before heading off to New York City where he resides today. Andrew runs the Blackdisco imprint, a well known edits series which finds its releases in the bags of top jocks like DJ Harvey, James Murphy and Todd Terje. In the past few years, Lovefingers has performed at the Whitney Biennial, Doug Aitken’s Sleepwalkers premiere at MoMA, Henrik Vibskov’s Tent City exhibition in Seoul, repeated summers at P.S.1's Warm-Up as well as numerous tours through North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. One half of The Stallions, along-side long time disco cohort Lee Douglas, Andrew co-wrote and produced the Stallions' Suite for Findlay Brown. This 12 minute epic journey of modern Disco and Spaghetti Western themes has received praise from disco giants like Ashley Beadle, DJ Cosmo, Prins Thomas, Pilooski, and to the Stallions' delight, been played by the legendary David Mancuso at The Loft. The Stallions have been busy with a slew of remixes as well as their debut album, of which you can be sure will change the scope of modern dance music. 2010 has also seen Lovefingers' new label, ESP Institute, debut with an EP by Sombrero Galaxy, the first of many exciting releases planned over the next year.

Currently, Josh Cheon has started Dark Entries Records, a vinyl-only label, dedicated to dark wave and minimal synth. Jason Kendig has teamed up with Andy Butler of Hercules & Love Affair on a new project. Pee Play is working on a series of edits with SF chanteuse Silencefiction. Robot Hustle and Ken Vulsion recently uncovered scores of unreleased Megatone Records master tapes including incredible synth-based works by disco legend Patrick Cowley (now released on Berlin's Macro label). Ken and Derek Bobus (Honey's new secret weapon) are embarking on an east coast DJ tour. Expect a new comp out this April and lots of DJing in SF, LA, NY and London.

Alison Childs, who studied design at RISD in the late 1900s, has been experimenting with poly-chromatic, geometric video and light projection since 2002. Her live installations have accompanied internationally renown musicans and DJs such as Juan Atkins, Glass Candy, Special Disco Version, The Juan MacLean, Morgan Geist, Dam Funk, Cosmo Vitelli, Surkin, Cluster, Daniel Wang, Trans Am, Tussle, and Zombi. Her music videos for independent bands, single-channel video works and installations have been included in international film and video festivals worldwide. In 2005, she co-founded Donuts! in San Francisco, and maintained the role of resident video artist. In 2009, she relocated back to NYC and joined DFA's The Juan MacLean for a European tour. As resident designer and video artist for Galaxie, she hopes to continue the same positive, community-powered atmosphere here in New York that she found explode during her years in San Francisco.